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[Fwd: Thanks from Tsukuba]
by Shalini Urs 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Dear LIS Professionals, You might have received many mails recently regarding the Japanese spirit, discipline and calm during the disaster. The speed at which the roads in Japan have been repaired is astounding! I am sharing this long winding but a personal diary kind of a mail from a professional personal friend -- Shigeo Sugimoto of University of Tsukuba. I thought of sharing this with you all for the following reasons: 1. To get a sense of the Japanese life, spirit, and mindset from a personal contact 2. Since he also talks about the roles and value to LIS professionals. Thanks Shalini ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Thanks from Tsukuba From: "Shigeo Sugimoto" <sugimoto(a)SLIS.TSUKUBA.AC.JP> Date: Mon, April 4, 2011 10:34 am To: ISCHOOLS(a)MLIST.NTU.EDU.SG -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear All, Three weeks have passed since the quake in the norther part of the main island of Japan. I received many messages from you after the quake. I'd like to express my thanks again to you. I'm writing this message to express my feelings and thoughts at this point. I'm hoping to share my experiences with you because this incident happened in Japan would be useful for us to think about the roles and values of information networks and libraries. The rest of this message is long. If you are busy please ignore the rest of this message and receive my thanks from Tsukuba. Nearly 30K people are killed or missing by the quake. The incident of the Fukushima nuclear power plants is an awful disaster. I think these facts have been reported by many news media. The rest of this message is written purely by my own personal experiences and thoughts. March 11(Fri), I was attending a meeting at a meeting room on 3rd floor, National Diet Library in Tokyo when the first major quake happened at 15:46. The second major one came 30minutes after the first one. Many of us in the room hided ourselves under tables, which means that the shake was significantly large even in Tokyo. We got information from the Internet during the meeting but continued our meeting until 5:30pm. Most of the public transportation services were shut down immediately after the quake. NDL extended their service for the public to 8:30pm, which is very unusual. At NDL closed their service but they allowed their guests in the reading rooms to stay over night and provided blankets and foods which had been prepared for emergency. I stayed over night at an office of NDL and had to stay one more night in Tokyo because of traffic shutdown to Tsukuba. While I was staying overnight at NDL, UStream and Twitter were the main information source for me and my colleagues. Email on mobile phones, which is the most heavily used communication media in our ordinary lives, was working in Tokyo/Tsukuba not reliable because of too much traffic. March 14 to 20, Drs. Schubert Foo and Stu Weibel arrived in Tsukuba as a visiting scholar at my school and research center. Because the living environment in Tsukuba was not perfect especially for non-Japanese speakers who are not familiar with Tsukuba, I decided to go to Kyoto with them for a week to visit some institutions in Kyoto with which I'm collaborating in my research - NDL Kansaikan, Kyoto Manga Museum and Kyoto Univ. (As of today, Tsukuba Express provides four services between Tokyo and Tsukuba for every hour during day time and more in rush hours, which is about 80% of the normal.) March 21 - 27, I returned from Kyoto to Tokyo and stayed two nights in Tokyoãbecause I had to attend several meetings in Tokyo. Frequency of metro trains which I used were a little less than usual but I didn't feel any inconvenience. I found less illuminations in the city and less brightness in showcases in order to save electricity. Tokyo is darker than before but not so dark in the night, and there is no significant change of the safety of the city at this point. The air in Tokyo seems better than before the quake because of less activities, I guess. Radio activity level is a little higher than before and decreasing. There is no significant danger for our health based on news on TV and newspapers. The air is much better than it was 40-30 years ago when the Japanese economy was growing very rapidly. U.Tsukuba canceled the commencement ceremony that was scheduled on March 25 because of the damages on campus and other social and infrastructural problems. At the meetings in Tokyo, there were two interesting discussions from my viewpoint. 1. What libraries, publishers and creators can contribute to the people in the disaster areas and living in evacuation shelters. (a meeting of an advisory panel for promotion of use of digital publishing hosted by agency of culture, ministry of education) - JLA expressed willingness to send copies of books by fax and/or electronically to the libraries in the damaged areas, which is not allowed in the ordinary situation because of copyrights. Delegates from publishers and creators were very supportive. - Publishers communities are providing useful information for free. For example, a publisher which is specialized in medical information provides e-journal for free. 2. How to improve usability of governmental document and records management systems under this disastrous situation. (an advisory group meeting for governmental records management hosted at Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.) - Some local governments lost their servers and paper records. Branch offices of the national government were also damaged. There is a case that very basic registration records of local residents, which were maintained by a local government and backed up the regional branch of the national government, are lost. This would boost cloud-nization of the governmental records keeping system. - Information is not well shared in the government offices and it causes delays and problems in the decision process. This would be a Japanese specific problem but common problem in bureaucratic system, especially under this very emergency and chaotic situation. March 28-present I used this week to clean-up my office. This was the most challenging task with me and because my office was already disastrous before the quake.:-) There is a photos of my lab and office taken right after the quake by my student. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsunagun/ (The bottom six photos show my office.) My office and lab are on the fourth floor and no serious damages. Two PCs and one display were broken when they fallen down. Three weeks since the quake have passed very very fast. I think this is an important opportunity for us to re-think about the value of information and the roles of libraries. Reliability of information and information resources are more crucial than usual under the emergency situation. Significant amount of local memories and records were lost because many public libraries, museums and city/town offices were lost or heavily damaged. Fortunately, no riot or panic has happened by now since the quake, and there is no serious infection of flu or other diseases. However, there are rumor which cause fear among people in the disaster areas. And, news about radio activity have caused some affects on our lives, which are mostly over-reaction by the general public. For example, it is hard to buy bottled mineral water in this week. Bottled tea and soft-drinks are available but plain water. -- KEK's page would be useful for those people who have interests in radio -- activity in Tsukuba. -- Dose rate at Tsukuba (KEK) http://rcwww.kek.jp/norm/index-e.html -- (http://www.kek.jp/quake/en/index.html) Lastly, most of the city infrastructure of Tsukuba has recovered. The distance to the Fukushima nuclear plant is 160KM (=100miles). My impression about our society is that we are mentally depressed a bit because of the serious damage caused by Tsunami and the nuclear plant incident. I and my colleagues at Tsukuba are starting new academic year with new students from April 7. Thanks for your patience. Best wishes, -- Shigeo Dr. Shalini Urs Executive Director and Professor International School of Information Management University of Mysore Mysore - 570006 Phone : + 91 821 2514699 Fax : + 91 821 2519209 www.isim.ac.in ISiM - Management School of IT. 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request for article
by Dr.D.P Prathap 02 Apr '11

02 Apr '11

dear colleagues Please provide the following article, if available: Nature 1951. v168, p.383-4. chromosome elimination in saccharum / Parthasarathy, N. Sincerely t.shanmuganathan technical officer (library) sugarcane breeding institute coimbatore m:9677502392 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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LibLiveCD version 1.2. (Ubuntu 10.10 with DSpace-1.7.0, & Koha-3.2.6 pre-configured and pre-installed)
by Dimple Patel 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Dear all, We are happy to inform about the new release version of LibLiveCD version 1.2. This version is made available on http://sourceforge.net/projects/liblivecd The liblivecd-ver1.2.iso file size is 617 MB. The current version of LibLiveCD contains Ubuntu 10.10, DSpace-1.7.0, & Koha-3.2.6. DSpace and Koha are pre-configured and pre-installed. Along with DSpace and Koha, the CD-ROM also contains following server related software such as:- Apache2 Web Server, OpenSSH Server, VSFTP Server, MySQL Server, PostGreSQL Server, Exim4 Server, Dovecot Server, SquirrelMail Mail Client and minimum Gnome Desktop Support. To input multilingual data in DSpace and Koha, IBus input method is also available with this version. IBus can be started from System-Preferences-Keyboard Input Methods. Add languages which you need from IBUS preferences-Input Method Tab. OpenOffice and multimedia related software are excluded from the CD and these can easily be installed by running "reload" initially from Synaptic and then searching and installing. If the synaptic reload does not work try changing repositories to http://archives.ubuntu.com/ubuntu instead of http://in.archives.ubuntu.com/ubuntu. Abiword for editing/reading word documents as well as Evince for reading PDF files is pre-installed with CDROM. Please write to dlrg(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in for any comments/suggestions. Dr. Sunita Barve NCRA, Pune _______________________________________________ DLRG mailing list DLRG(a)drtc.isibang.ac.in http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/dlrg -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[IFLA-L] Out now: March 2011 issue of IFLA Journal
by Dabas Bharat K 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Dear Colleagues Latest issue of IFLA Journal: Volume 37, No. 1 (March 2011) available at: http://www.ifla.org/en/news/out-now-march-2011-issue-of-ifla-journal Contents: Editorial First Papers from Gothenburg Stephen Parker 3 Articles Sustaining learning for LIS through use of a virtual world Sheila Webber and Diane Nahl 5 Usability and compatibility of e-book readers in an academic environment: A collaborative study Mari Aaltonen, Petri Mannonen, Saija Nieminen, and Marko Nieminen 16 Keeping the information profession up to date: Are compulsory schemes the answer? Judith Broady-Preston and Amanda Cossham 8 Integrating diversity across the LIS curriculum: An exploratory study of instructors' perceptions and practices online Bharat Mehra, Hope A. Olson, and Suzana Ahmad 39 Parliamentary library and research services in the 21st century: A Delphi study Roxanne Missingham 52 Uniting information literacy promotion and reader development in schools: Two forms of ibrary-based intervention Andrew K. Shenton 62 Collection development for immigrants - what to purchase, and why? Findings in Gothenburg, Sweden Ingrid Atlestam, Ann-Christine Brunnström, and Randi Myhre 69 News 80 International calendar 88 Abstracts 90 Happy Readings Regards! Bharat Kumar Assistant Librarian Management Development Institute Gurgaon - 122007, Haryana, India Phone No - (M) +91-9968456404 (O) +91-124-4560390 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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CSI eNewsletter dt. 1st Apr 2011
by hrmohan＠vsnl.com 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Dear all, The 21st issue (Volume 2. issue 5) of CSI eNewsletter dt. 1st Apr 2011 is ready and can be accessed at http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2011-04-01.pdf and also at the CSI KM Portal http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/enewsletter For the archives of this newsletter, pl. visit http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-archives.htm or at http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/archives You are free to forward this mail to your contacts who may like the information presented in the mail. With regards HR Mohan Chairman, Div IV, CSI & eNewsletter Committee, IEEE CS & PCS Madras http://infoforuse.blogspot.com/ Contents ======= -- Reducing Organizational Risk Through Virtual Patching -- 2010 Data Breach Investigations Report -- Information Pioneers -- Top 50 Green and Environmental Engineering Blogs -- Microsoft Azure tutorial: A look at the cloud platform -- Business Intelligence Buyer’s Guide – 2011 Edition -- Data Deduplication Background -- Why Cloud Backup: Top 10 Reasons -- How to Compare Server Online Backup and Recovery Service Providers -- Avoiding the Hazards of IT Consolidation -- Quantum computer slips onto chips -- TheSportsMirror.com Internship & Training Program -- ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" Fellowship Programme -- Happiness -- It’s All in Your Head -- Modern Panchtantra Story -- ICT News Headlines & Briefs -- Announcements -- Book: E-Business: A Management Perspective -- Book: Innovation Management - Strategies, Implementation, and Profits -- Book: 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know -- Book: Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity -- About the CSI-eNewsletter -- Contributions to CSI-eNewsletter -- eNewsletter Committee InfoQuiz–2011-04-01 (Six Prizes to Win – Four Books and Two Awards of Rs. 500/- each) ====================================================== 1. Name the machine, powered by 90 32-core IBM Power 750 Express servers with a total of 16 terabytes of memory which had recently won $ 1 million in the Jeopardy game show defeating the champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. 2. "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" is an adage which began as the caption of a cartoon by ------. 3. InstaCompute and InstaOffice are the cloud offerings from ------. 4. Name the $99 handheld device which delivers the joy of information by offering three million Wikipedia articles. 5. Name the web tool for language translation launched by the former President, Mr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, recently at the WWW conference which has an ambitious task of offering web based translation services to 18 Indian languages. Email your answers by 20th Apr 2011 to csi.infoquiz(a)gmail.com with subject “infoquiz-2011-04-01”. Please provide your name, designation, company/institution, full postal address (to send the prize) and the contact phone nos. after the answers. The first person to answer correctly and one randomly selected lucky winner will be awarded Rs. 500/= each by SRA Systems (www.srasys.com) Oxford University Press (http://www.oup.co.in) & Shroff Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd (http://www.shroffpublishers.com) will present the books which are briefly reviewed above. In all, there will be SIX prizes – TWO cash prizes of Rs. 500/- each and FOUR prizes of one book each. Answers along with the winner info will be published in the next issue. Answers & Winners of InfoQuiz-2011-03-01 =============================== Twoosh, Oh My God, Claude Elwood Shannon, qubits, Epson Awards of Rs. 500/= each from SRA Systems to Mr. P. Kumar from Chennai and to Ms. A. Brindha from Thoothukudi. Books from Oxford University Press: “IT Strategy for Business” to Ms. Femina from Chennai & “Entrepreneurship” to Mr. T. Srikanth from Hyderabad. Books from Shroff Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd: “Testing in 30+ Open Source Tools” to Mr. Naveen Aggarwal from Chandigarh & “Nothing is Absolute” to Mr. G. Sivashankar.G from Jagatsinghpur, Orissa. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Recruitment of Library Professionals-Reg.
by sankar kumar 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

IBS Pune welcomes Library Professionals IBS since its establishment in 1995 has grown impressively and achieved widespread recognition from business and industry, academic circles, and professional bodies. IBS is consistently ranked among the top B-schools in India, in the annual B-school surveys every year. Applications are invited from the library professionals for IBS Pune Campus. The candidates should have M.L.Sc / M.Li.Sc or equivalent degree from reputed university with minimum 55% marks, at least 1-6 years of experience in academic / research institutions. All candidates should be computer savvy with good communication skills. Remuneration will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Interested candidates may forward their detailed bio-data on or before 12th April 2011 by post / courier / e-mail to The Librarian, IBS C/o IFHE, City Office #52, Nagarjuna Hills Panjagutta Hyderabad-500 082 Email: library(a)ibsindia.org -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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consortium
by sadhana chauhan 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Dear Lis Professionals plz send list or link engineering consortium. REGARD: SADHANA SINGH CHAUHAN LIBRARIAN GIIT -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Copyright in Digital Medium: The Way Forward
by rcgaur＠bol.net.in 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE ARTS Cordially invites you to Kala Nidhi Lecture Series and Outreach Programme (KNL-I) on Copyright in Digital Medium: The Way Forward by Mr. Vakul Sharma Advocate, Supreme Court of India On the Wendesday, April 13, 2011 at 3.00 PM at Lecture Hall, IGNCA Kala Nidhi Building (Ground Floor) 11, Mansingh Road, New Delhi-110001 Shri V.B. Pyarelal Joint Secretary, IGNCA Will preside over Profile of Mr. Vakul Sharma A lawyer practising in the Supreme Court of India and High Court(s), specialising in the field of information technology, data protection, privacy and cyber crimes. Advises the Government of India and various State Governments on Information Technology and practices. He has been nominated by the Central Government on various Expert Committees, Consultative Committees, Panels & Working Groups on Information Technology, Cyber Security, Data Protection, Cyber Crimes, E-governance etc. Having a unique distinction of training superior court judges, civil servants, police officers, law enforcement agencies, and forensic experts all across India on information technology, data protection, privacy and cyber crimes. Has studied International Relations, International Economics, Law and Management from premier Schools/ Institutions in India and Europe and holds LL.B., Masters, M.Phil and MBA degrees. Has written numerous Books, White Papers, Directives and Policy documents. He can be reached . regards ramesh ******************************************** Dr. Ramesh C Gaur PGDCA, MLISc,Ph.D. Fulbright Scholar (Virginia Tech, USA) Librarian & Head-Kala Nidhi Division Coordinator- ABIA International Index Project Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts(IGNCA) (An Autonomous Trust under Ministry of Culture. Govt. of India) 11 Man Singh Road, New Delhi-110001 Phone: 91-11-23385442, 23385884 Fax: 91-11-23385884 Mobile: 91-9810487158 URL: www.ignca.gov.in Email: gaur(a)ignca.nic.in; rcgaur(a)bol.net.in ramesh.gaur(a)fulbrightmail.org http://www.ignca.nic.in/PDF_data/Profile_Dr_RC_Gaur.pdf -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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request for article
by Dr.D.P Prathap 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Dear colleagues Please provide the following article, if possible: Advances in microirrigation - M. Gopalakrishnan Irrigation and Drainage Vol 56, No 2-3 (363-365) Yours Sincerely T.Shanmuganathan Technical Officer (Library) Sugarcane Breeding Institute m:9677502392 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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100 years of LIS Education in India
by Pawan Agrawal 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Dear Library Professionals,, Year 2011 brought a special achievement for library professionals in India... We have completed 100 years of Library and Information Science Education in India.... The first LIS course was started in Baroda state in 1911 and 2011 we have successfully competed a millennium.... I congrats all LIS Teachers and Library Professional on this occasion....... -- Thanks and Regards *-------* Join hands, Join eLibrarian www.grou.ps/elibrarian *-------* *Pawan R. Agrawal *Librarian Takshshila Centre for Learning Transpek Silox Industry Ltd. Kalali Road- Atladra Vadodara- 390012 Ph. 9376135580 http://www.pragrawal.wordpress.com http://grou.ps/elibrarian Skype ID: pawanagrawal4u4u -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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